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An unmeasured mountain
An estimated 11,000 tonnes of waste sits at Sangrur's main dump — with no entry gate, no CCTV and no weighbridge to even measure what's piling up.
SANGRUR · ਪੰਜਾਬ
Sangrur is suffocating under a 20-foot mountain of toxic waste. NGT exposed 11,000 tonnes of unsegregated trash rotting with no gates, no surveillance, and zero accountability. They promised a clean future. They left us a lawless wasteland.
Expose the negligenceThis is our city. The National Green Tribunal had to order an inspection of Sangrur's dumps — and the Pollution Control Board's own report contradicted the Municipal Council's tall claims. Here is what they found.
An estimated 11,000 tonnes of waste sits at Sangrur's main dump — with no entry gate, no CCTV and no weighbridge to even measure what's piling up.
Inspectors found stagnant toxic leachate pooling with no collection system and stray dogs roaming the site — poisoning the ground beneath us.
Massive heaps of mixed waste line our city roads — even right outside the Civil Hospital, Ranbir College and Anaj Mandi — while your government files fictional claim of "100% door-to-door collection and management."
Garbage — including toxic biomedical waste — is set on fire in the open. The smoke chokes elderly residents and respiratory patients near the very hospital meant to heal them. Sangrur has run out of land to dump, so it burns.
Your nonchalant and insensitive behaviour left the whole of Punjab drowning in garbage for 15 days, and now our Safai Sewak brethren have been forced to go back on strike again against your complete lack of intent to fulfil your promises. Citizens were forced to burn unsegregated waste, inhaling highly toxic air because of your sheer administrative failure. Agreeing to regularization on paper is just a temporary stalling tactic — piles of empty promises won't clear the toxic rot. To fix this crisis, the government must codify the regularization into law immediately in the upcoming Monsoon Session and fulfill the structural demands you are still running away from.
The government that swept to power on a broom can't keep its own sanitation workers paid, secure, or heard. Jhaadu Kithe Hai?
No graphics. No exaggeration. These photos and videos were shot by residents on Sangrur's own streets and chowks. Tap any video to play.
Sangrur is not an exception — it is the rule. Across Punjab, the same mountains rise and the same workers are pushed onto the streets.
Zoom out from Sangrur and the numbers get worse. New, stricter solid-waste rules took effect on 1 April 2026 — and Punjab is nowhere close to ready.
At the current pace, that legacy mountain won't be cleared before 2027 — the year Punjab votes. Jhaadu Kithe Hai?
Front pages and ground reports on Sangrur's garbage crisis — straight from the press.
Official campaign posters, hoardings and videos — free to download, print and share. Every creative carries #JhaaduKitheHai.